Quotes About Dishonesty

My old Greek, who was my teacher when I was a boy in my own country," I said, "taught me this. It was a Somali saying, I believe: 'Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for the trickster and catch him at the first attempt, but beware of an honest man.

Back at 23 Wall Street, Lamont received a wire from Jack Morgan expressing disgust with Mexico. Jack thought it a point of family honor to make sure Mexico repaid his father's 1899 loan: "I did not think any Government of modern times would so frankly proclaim its complete dishonesty or its abandonment of all decent finance or morals. Hope you did not have too trying a time, and congratulate you in getting out before they stole your pocketbook or watch.

Truthfulness, uprightness, and honesty are in this connection creative forces, while mendacity, deceitfulness, and dishonesty are destructive forces.

A liar only lies when he hopes to be believed.

O, Need's a funny fish: it makes people untruthful. They all suffer from it, but they will not always admit.

Few of us are murderers or thieves, but we have all been liars.

La mayor parte de las formas de degradación personal y maldad pública se desencadenan y sustentan con la mentira. Los actos de adulterio y demás deslealtades personales, el fraude económico, la corrupción gubernamental... hasta el asesinato y el genocidio suelen requerir un defecto moral adicional: la disposición para mentir.

Lying is the royal road to chaos.   As

This guy is such an obvious cheater that once when he had a hole in one he wrote down zero on his scorecard.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Success has always been a great liar.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

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You can always tell a liar, for he will not look at you when he speaks, and often he has white spots on his fingernails, one to mark every lie he's told.

You will be amazed to find how easy it is to lie, even to those you love best.

There was a saying among the Mundo: It takes only one lie to unravel the world.

You have less honour than a piece of shit.

Son, this is a Washington, D.C. kind of lie. It's when the other person knows you're lying, and also knows you know he knows.

Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Hypocrite, n. One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

MACHINATION, n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable efforts to do the right thing.

Sin has many tools, but a lie has a handle to fit them all.